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Ed Gass-Donnelly’s Small Town Murder Songs is a modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about a police officer from a small Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder occurs.

A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary and appearances are deceiving, in Nick Tomnay’s psychological thriller The Perfect Host.

Duncan Jones’ sci-fi thriller Source Code was screened to positive reviews at SXSW; we can now check out the first five minutes of the movie and see what all the excitement is about for ourselves.

College freshman Adam Buckley finds himself dealing with the fact that he has to rob a convenience store as the final initiation step into Sigma Zeta Chi in Will Canon’s Brotherhood.

Ross Ching’s 3 Minutes, starring Harry Shum Jr. (aka Mike Chang from Glee) and Stephen “tWitch” Boss, is a mysterious thriller that’s jampacked with lots of action, you know, for a three minute film.

In 1348, as Europe falls under the shadow of the Plague, a fearsome knight is charged by the church to investigate talk of a necromancer who is able to bring the dead back to life in Black Death.

Starring Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett, Joe Wright’s Hanna tells the story of a seemingly good teenage girl who’s been trained to be the perfect assassin. Out 4/11. (Thanks Mason!)

Based on a Philip K. Dick sci-fi short story, George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt as people whose romance is foiled by creepy men wearing hats in a virtual world.

Michael arrives in Berlin to visit Gabi, only to discover that a terrible virus is spreading across the city at a rapid pace and turning people into mindless homicidal maniacs, in Rammbock.

At Sundance, folks either loved or hated Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me, with Casey Affleck as Lou Ford, a sociopathic murderer who covers up his tracks the best he can as a sheriff.

This UK indie tells the tale of two criminals who kidnap a young woman named Alice Creed. But things don’t always work out as planned, and Alice turns the tables on her captors. Opens August 6.

Remedy reveals more about upcoming Xbox 360 suspense title Alan Wake, touching on aspects like the light-and-dark mechanic, on-the-fly difficulty adjustment, as well as the game’s story.

This indie flick about a lone serial killer has been getting tons of buzz from those in the know. Peter Ferdinando’s breakthrough performance as the quietly-intense killer would make Dexter proud.

In this looks-too-cheesy-to-be-good thriller, a college student traveling in London is hit by a cab and wakes up in a seamy underworld filled with strange and disturbed individuals.

Mel Gibson is in full bad-ass form in Edge of Darkness, a suspense/thriller about a father who loses his daughter; in theaters 01/29/10, it’s a bit of Payback mixed with Conspiracy Theory.